Holiday Dazzle really razzle dazzled!

Last night was the 9th annual Holiday Dazzle Light Parade held here in Putnam.

Pretty simple and fun idea. People, cars, floats, businesses, families, bikes, even cows, all decorate and light themselves up. Then they parade through town! Everyone gets hyped up! They estimated 15,000 - 20,000 people attended. Putnamania is truly catching. It is like a big, happy, positive magnet here and all good hearts and spirits are attracted by the wonderful times to be had. Promotion of community gatherings and fun are par for the course, but not taken for granted. Accentuate the positive is our unspoken but always acted upon agreement.
  
Oddly it was the 9th parade I had to miss due to work. I look forward to seeing it every year, but it has not worked out...yet.

Driving home after work at 1:15am, I looked up at the shining half moon and all the stars in the sky, as well as the few twinkling Christmas lights still lit in windows. I pictured the Holiday Dazzle Light Parade in my mind. It was fantastic!

So once again, I started vowing today that NEXT year I will be there!

Here is a short article from the Norwich Bulletin if you would like to check out the scoop.

I am a Putnamaniac because of great family & community events like the Holiday Dazzle Light Parade!